Flat Stanley in the Content Areas: Various Activities in all Content Areas

English/Language Arts

Having the students do research on various sites Flat Stanley visited. This would improve the students reading in non-fiction. Teachers could scaffold articles that may be a higher reading level than the students level to boost the students reading levels.

Throughout the Flat Stanley project students would write emails or handwritten letters to the students at the school they are cooperating with.

This project would easily improve the students vocabulary. Reading non-fiction literature on places in their area and literature on places in their cooperating area would mature their vocabulary.

Math

Throughout the Flat Stanley project students could calculate the distance between the areas visited in their area. Students could also calculate the distance between them (their school) and the places the cooperating school visited. This could be measured in miles or kilometers. This activity could teach or re-teach conversions.

Students could also calculate the time it would take for Flat Stanley to get from the school to the site visited. This activity would include elapsed time and telling time.

Social Studies

Throughout this project students could learn about the different land-forms throughout the state of North Carolina, and the different land-forms in Florida.

Students could learn about geography by learning where Florida is on a map in correlation to North Carolina. This activity would also assist students in learning to read a map.

The history of North Carolina would be something easily learned through the Flat Stanley project. (Blackbeard's house, Fort Fisher, Fort Macon, Bath,NC, history of farming in the state)

Science

Students could learn about different ecosystems in Florida and North Carolina. Freshwater verses saltwater and warm (FL) verses cool water (NC).

Throughout the Flat Stanley project students could learn about various vegetation in North Carolina and Florida this could be taught through teaching the students about farming in each state.